University of Texas-Permian Basin Percussion Professor Tim Feerst stops by to talk about his job, his wind band background, and “Friday Night Lights” (04:15), his teaching fellowship at the University of North Texas, taking various gigs prior to getting to UTPB, and “being interview ready at all times” (29:45), and growing up in Northern Virginia, government jobs, and getting into percussion and acting in his youth (45:00).
Finishing with a Rave on the 2000 novel The Human Stain (01:10:15).
Links:
Friday Night Lights - Buzz Bissinger
“Improvisation” - Elliot Carter
“The Process of Invention” - Christopher Deane
“Dances of Earth and Fire” - Peter Klatzow
Casey Cangelosi on the podcast
“Those Canaan Days” - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
“Benjamin Calypso” - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
“Hang on Sloopy” - marching band arrangement
Raves: